Re: [PATCH v1 1/8] kasan: Change the behavior of kmalloc_large_oob_right test

[Andrey Ryabinin]

On 02/02/2016 08:34 AM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Jan 2016 19:25:06 +0100 Alexander Potapenko <glider@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> depending on which allocator (SLAB or SLUB) is being used
>>
>> ...
>>
>> --- a/lib/test_kasan.c
>> +++ b/lib/test_kasan.c
>> @@ -68,7 +68,22 @@ static noinline void __init kmalloc_node_oob_right(void)
>>  static noinline void __init kmalloc_large_oob_right(void)
>>  {
>>  	char *ptr;
>> -	size_t size = KMALLOC_MAX_CACHE_SIZE + 10;
>> +	size_t size;
>> +
>> +	if (KMALLOC_MAX_CACHE_SIZE == KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE) {
>> +		/*
>> +		 * We're using the SLAB allocator. Allocate a chunk that fits
>> +		 * into a slab.
>> +		 */
>> +		size = KMALLOC_MAX_CACHE_SIZE - 256;
>> +	} else {
>> +		/*
>> +		 * KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE > KMALLOC_MAX_CACHE_SIZE.
>> +		 * We're using the SLUB allocator. Allocate a chunk that does
>> +		 * not fit into a slab to trigger the page allocator.
>> +		 */
>> +		size = KMALLOC_MAX_CACHE_SIZE + 10;
>> +	}
> 
> This seems a weird way of working out whether we're using SLAB or SLUB.
> 
> Can't we use, umm, #ifdef CONFIG_SLAB?  If not that then let's cook up
> something standardized rather than a weird just-happens-to-work like
> this.
> 

Actually it would be simpler to not use KMALLOC_MAX_CACHE_SIZE at all.
Simply replace it with 2 or 3 PAGE_SIZEs.